noun. A spirited dance in triple time, popular in France in the 1500s and 1600s.

noun. The music for this dance.

adjective. Spirited; lively.

Brisk; gay; lively; jaunty.

noun. A brisk, lively man; a gay, jaunty fellow: as, “Selden is a galliard,”

noun. A spirited dance for two dancers only, common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: one of the precursors of the minuet. Also called romanesca.

noun. Music written for such a dance, or in its rhythm, which is triple and emphatic, but not rapid.

noun. A term used in northern England for a sandstone or grit of particularly close and uniform texture.

noun. A gay, lively dance. Cf. gailliarde.

noun. A brisk, gay man.

adjective. Gay; brisk; active.

noun. A lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe

noun. The triple-time music for this dance

"On p. 64 Arbeau treats of the Lavolta ( 'high lavolt' of Shakespeare), which he says is a kind of galliard well known in Provence."

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